Had the same problem; did not want to wipe system, a repair of O/S did not fix it. Installing S/P 1 rc1 fixed the spooler errors.

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gtcr6100Commented: 2008-01-17

Unplug the printer from USB
reboot your leptop
Log in as a local admin( not on domain)
the print spooler should start automatically
if not, start it manually.
go to the printers and faxes and delete the stuck jobs from the Q
delete the printer
plug it back in and reinstall it

this could be due to a wrong driver so make sure you are installing the correct one.

I've just had this problem and I've seen and heard of it before - I'm always reluctant to do system restores as I like to know what caused the problem in the 1st place. In my case it was a job sent to a HP 1022 that caused the print spooler to crash everytime anything remotely print related tried to action.

My fix was simple - I went to %SystemRoot%\Windows\System32\Spool. In this folder I renamed the 'PRINTERS' folder to PRINTERSold. A new PRINTERS folder is automatically created, I then removed the problematic printer and reinstalled it (though with the same drivers as the HP ftp server is always appaulingly slow/not working).

We can now print fine and it seems to be holding up - Now just to wait for Microsoft to provide a hotfix that works!

Hope this helps,

Ryan

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MichaelEvangelistaCommented: 2008-08-12

>> My fix was simple - I went to %SystemRoot%\Windows\System32\Spool. In this folder I renamed the 'PRINTERS' folder to PRINTERSold

This seems to have done the trick for me too.
Thanks ConanUK for posting!

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